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Now let speculation begin as to where a place the size of MicroCenter will fit around 59/610. There’s that large parcel across Richmond from Best Buy, maybe displace Zone D’ Erotica (in Uptown Management District’s dreams), The large land parcels on Rice on the Bellaire side are pretty inaccesible for retail.

What the hell is wrong with you people? That’s now two posts on a new skyscraper being built in Uptown and all anyone can talk about is what will happen to poor pitiful MicroCenter. I thought this was a development/architecture fanboy blog?

before they do anything on south rice, that whole street from gulfton to 59 needs to be redone. currently, there are too many places where people are making left turns and blocking the lane. the problem is that the right lanes going both north and south are full of potholes and torn pavement and appear to be too small to allow two vehicles side by side heading in the same direction.

they would also need to resolve the problem that elementary school causes with traffic heading south into the school sitting on and creating a back up on s. rice.

until those issues are addressed, i can’t see very much retail being successful. currently, the businesses (other than sam’s) are destination businesses, you go there because you need to (Houston Gymnastics Academy, Cheveron Info technology on Fournace, PV rentals, Paradigm MMA training).

Roy: I haven’t been there much, but I was always impressed with their selection and prices. They were very competitive with the online shops. Close enough where I’m sure a lot of people found value in being able to talk to someone and pick something up right there on the spot. I can tell you that their only competition was online since if they option is micro center or Frys, micro center was much better.

You obviously know nothing about computer parts then, Microcenter has the most up-to-date and extensive collection of parts anywhere in Houston and at prices that are consistently lower than online. I used to buy everything online, but when I need to build a computer the first place I go is Microcenter. The building is very outdated (lol at the netscape logo outside), but the stuff inside is always the best and cheapest available.